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Zoë Ferraris moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War. She lived in a conservative Muslim community with her then-husband and his family, a group of Saudi-Palestinians.

In 2006, she completed her MFA in Fiction at Columbia University. Her debut novel, Finding Nouf (published as Night of the Mi'raj in the UK) is now being published in thirty countries. A follow-up novel, City of Veils, is now available.

She currently lives in San Francisco.


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Kingdom of Strangers by Zoë Ferraris
" I think that Zoe Ferraris is my new favorite mystery author. 50 or so pages into KOS, and it's like getting back together with old friends I have not seen for a while. These books for me are less about the mystery, and more about the characters li... "
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“And like some part of himself that, two days ago, had thought pray and propriety were antidote enough to what ailed the world.”
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